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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Specialist committees

Article L533-31-4

I.-Investment firms of significant size, the board of directors, the supervisory board or any other body exercising equivalent supervisory functions shall set up a compensation committee. Branches of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Planning and sustainable development

Article L4424-26-4

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Prudential provisions

Article L511-42

…institution or finance company so warrants, the Governor of the Banque de France, Chairman of the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, shall, after obtaining the opinion of the Autorité d…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 10: Provisions relating to the resolution procedure

Article L613-49-2

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, in particular Articles L. 640-4 and L. 640-5 of the French Commercial Code, compulsory liquidation proceedings instituted by Book VI of the French Commer…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 10: Provisions relating to the resolution procedure

Article L613-49-3

Where warranted by the implementation of resolution measures, the Chairman of the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, at the request of the collège de résolution, may ask any court to st…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Operating conditions

Article L425-4

I.-The operator of an organised trading system shall take all measures necessary to comply with the prohibition set out in Article L. 420-2 for the execution of members' orders on the system, whether…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 8: Relations with the statutory auditors

Article L612-45

When the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution becomes aware of misconduct or failure to comply with the legislative or regulatory provisions applicable to statutory auditors committed by a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 8: Despecialisation.

Article L145-49

The request made to the lessor must, on pain of nullity, include an indication of the activities whose exercise is envisaged. It shall be made by extrajudicial act or by registered letter with acknowl…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 8: Despecialisation.

Article L145-47

The tenant may add related or complementary activities to the business provided for in the lease. To this end, he must make his intention known to the landlord by extrajudicial act or by registered le…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY OF ALSACE

Article L3431-4

The European Collectivity of Alsace may offer optional teaching of regional language and culture on its territory, throughout schooling, in accordance with the procedures defined by the agreement refe…

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